Friends Gather To Remember The Life Of Slain ECU Baseball Player

A small crowd of about 30 of Lane's friends came to Oklahoma Christian University's Scott Chapel in Edmond to remember the Australian-born athlete's life.

DUNCAN, Oklahoma -

The support for the family
of a murdered Oklahoma college student is growing by the day.

The 22-year-old Christopher Lane
was shot a week ago in Duncan. Saturday afternoon, his friends gathered for a
memorial service in the Metro.

A small crowd of about 30 of
Lane's friends came to Oklahoma Christian University's Scott Chapel in Edmond
to remember the Australian-born athlete's life. The service was an intimate
gathering of friends from Lane's former school Redlands Community College and
from members of the O.C. community.

"It was pretty sad, but it was a
really great memorial that they put on," said Paige Bailey, a friend of
Lane's girlfriend Sarah Harper.

"A guy stood up and talked about
Chris and his relationship with Sarah and just how fun and loving he is."

Harper is a student at OC, who is currently in Australia with Lane's family.

"She's doing okay, but
obviously going through a very hard time," Bailey said.

Bailey says the service was short
and filled with reflections and slideshows of Lane and prayer. It was a similar
scene at the vigil held Friday night in Duncan where Lane, a baseball star at
East Central University, was gunned down during a jog.

"We focus on remembering
Christopher for the things we found out about his talent and him being a
compassionate individual with a world of opportunities before him, whose life
ended too soon," said Gene Brown, Mayor Of Duncan.

Donations are being collected for
Lane's family on the website, www.GoFundme.com
under "Christopher Lane Fund."